Whitehead’s love of poetry brings out the beauty in his discussions of literary theory just as easily as it informs his essays on his family and childhood. This makes Making Love with the Land daringly experimental in form and refreshingly radical in message. “The book defies colonial conceptions of genre in a way that feels reminiscent to how Two-Spiritedness defies colonial conceptions of queerness.”Įven Whitehead admits this work defies attempts at categorization, blending aspects of autobiography, biography, literary theory and poetry together into each of his essays. But that summary does not come close to doing this book justice. In Making Love with the Land, Whitehead’s essays talk about both works, his time working in academia, as well as his life experiences as a Two-Spirit Native. He’s the author of the book of poetry, Full Metal Indigiqueer, and the award-winning novel, Jonny Appleseed, about a cybersex worker trying to exist off the rez. “How, then, is storying akin to lovemaking,” Whitehead asks us in one of his essays, “Writing as a Rupture.” Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation.
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